After coming off an impressive 2018 campaign, Mitchell Trubisky has taken a major step back in his third season, but not everybody is completely blaming the young QB for his poor play.
Rich Eisen said on “The Rich Eisen Show” this week that he spoke with a trustworthy, but anonymous NFL coach who has a Super Bowl ring that says that Bears head coach Matt Nagy deserves most of the blame for that.
The coach implies that Nagy called so many gimmick plays in 2018 that Trubisky never actually learned to play basic football.
“The coach used all of these gimmicks last year and the rest of the league has sniffed it out, and Trubisky does not know how to do the basics because it was so gimmicky last year,” Eisen said the coach told him. “When it comes to going through regular reads and progressions like base football, he can’t do it and isn’t ready to do it. The Bears need to be far more simplistic, pull it back, go basic and start from scratch.”
That would be a viable argument for a QB selected in the later rounds, but Trubisky was taken in the 1st round ahead of guys like Deshaun Watson and Patrick Mahomes. A 1st-round QB should already know the basics of reads and progressions, so if the Bears drafted a guy knowing this beforehand, this is all on them.
Maybe, Trubisky shutting off all the TV’s in the Bears’ facilities will help him the long run, because the Bears could certainly use a boost on offense and in the win column.
